Audrey (2020), Postcards from the Edge (1990), Prince of Players (1955), Frances (1982), The Actress (1953), The Hero (2017), Jeanne Eagels (1957), Mr. Saturday Night (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Acting Career movies.
Storyline: Filmmaker Helena Coan examines the remarkable life and career of actress, fashion icon and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn.
Plot Keywords: biography, documentary, audrey hepburn, hollywood, classic cinema, humanitarianism, acting career ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox center her film company insists, as a condition of continuing to employ her, that she live with her mother, Doris Mann, who was once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for her as she has struggled for years to get out of Doris' shadow, who still treats her like a child. Despite these problems and further ones involving the men in in her life, she can begin to see the funny side of her situation, and it also starts to occur to her that not only do daughters have mothers, mothers do too.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, musical, mother-daughter relationship, hollywood, actor's life, drug addiction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A tragic and sentimental story that depicts the early career of the 19th century American actor, Edwin Booth with some mention of the events leading to the assassination of President Lincoln by Edwin's brother, John Wilkes Booth. In the film, Edwin's days in the spotlight dwindle shortly after his brother is caught and killed for assassinating Lincoln.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: historical, biographical, drama, shakespeare, actor, 19th century, america ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Actress Frances Farmer (Jessica Lange) makes trouble in 1930s and '40s Hollywood; her mother (Kim Stanley) commits her to a barbaric asylum.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, historical, female protagonist, artist, hollywood, psychological trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her father gives her his seaman's spyglass to sell as she heads for New York City.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, historical, female lead, hollywood, acting career, family conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lee Hayden is a veteran actor of Westerns whose career's best years are behind him after his one really great film, "The Hero". Now, scraping by with voice-overs for commercials, Lee learns that he has a terminal prognosis of pancreatic cancer. Unable to bring himself to tell anyone about it, especially his estranged family, Lee can only brood alone as troubling, yet inspiring, dreams haunt him. Things change when he meets Charlotte Dylan, a stand-up comedienne who becomes a lover who inadvertently jump-starts his public profile. Now facing a profound emotional conflict of having a potential career comeback, even as his imminent death is staring him in the face, Lee must finally come to terms with both realities when he finally confesses his situation to the one person he can.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, western, cancer, actor, hollywood, aging ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A largely fictionalized account of the career of actress Jeanne Eagels, whose fame was both on stage and on the screen in the 1910s and 1920s, is presented. After losing in a rigged carnival beauty pageant, winning which she believed would be her first step to becoming a serious actress, Jeanne joins the traveling carnival itself under the guidance of the pageant organizer, Sal Satori, who features her in a variety of carnival stage shows. But it's when the carnival approaches New York City that Jeanne demonstrates how she truly mapped out her road to acting fame even before meeting Sal. Under the tutelage of renowned acting coach Nellie Neilson, Jeanne, who does possess true acting talent, is given her big acting break and does achieve fame on the Broadway stage, and ultimately also in Hollywood films. Jeanne is not averse to doing whatever is required to advance her career, even at the expense of others. Achieving fame so quickly takes its toll on Jeanne, who turns to alcohol and drugs which would lead to her tragic end. Although other men would come and go over her life, Sal, who ends up joining forces with his brother in operating lucrative Coney Island attractions, is one constant, he who fell in love with and wanted to marry her.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, historical, female lead, hollywood, acting career, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of the world has forgotten the golden days of Buddy Young, and that there just may not be room in the business for an old comic like himself.—Michael Silva <silvamd@cleo.bc.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, american film, 1990s, directorial debut, stand-up comedy, family relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A portrait of Hollywood royalty Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, celebrity, hollywood, mother-daughter relationship, behind the scenes, star life ...
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